Off-peak times oblige, TrashTalk has taken the habit each summer of making you relive with emotion the greatest moments of the past season. Even in 2021, moreover, despite a summer that had then put all of our vital forces in PLS, but that’s another story. So we go back to our good old formula, we take a few steps back, a few months, and we remember that this 2021-22 season was crazy, from the first day to the last. Today ? Back to the Warriors title. ” It’s the emotions » as this brave Zizou would say.
For the end of this season told live, it’s over here!
Two years spent struggling in the bottom of the West, in the end not to hang the Playoffs in the final Play-in match in 2020-21. The Warriors could have thrown in the towel, said Guys, we’ve done enough and we’ve already won everything… let’s take some time for ourselves“. Wait, are you kidding knees or what? Did you think the trio Steph, Klay and Dray were going to drop everything after two bad seasons? Don’t mess around, here it’s #KeLaWin.
This June 16, 2022 in Boston, there are 10 seconds left in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. The Warriors lead by 13 points, and lead 3-2 in the series. You will have understood, the case is mathematically understood since even a Tracy McGrady passed by Namek could probably do nothing about it. Golden State will glean its fourth title in seven years, and the images of the end of the match are already rich in emotions. Stephen Curry who cracks, what better symbol than this to attest to all the pressure that weighed down, all the determination that animated these Warriors eager to take up this challenge? A challenge that many would have described as “stupid”, or at best “a little naive” a few months earlier. At the sound of the saving siren, the entire San Francisco team rushes to embrace its leader. From the historic quartet to the youngsters who are discovering the undoubtedly magnificent taste of the NBA title, everyone is partying and that’s what’s good.
What a powerful moment for Stephen Curry.
Embraces his dad on the baseline then completely collapses in tears. pic.twitter.com/F8WGLOOe7V
— C.J. Holmes ????????♂️ (@CjHolmes22) June 17, 2022
In the middle of this joyous general bazaar, a small moment which could have gone unnoticed but which finally illustrates so well the spirit of this team. Klay Thompson – injured for two years first in the cruciate ligaments then in the Achilles tendon – will go, in the few moments following the end of the match and the series, to take Rick Celebrini in his arms. Who is it ? This is the Warriors doctor who has overseen the player’s entire recovery since the early days of injury. This is also recognition, ladies and gentlemen. This dear Rick, whom no one is supposed to know other than at the Warriors, was – in his own way – one of the centerpieces of Golden State’s return to the top of the NBA. Other players here might have thought it was just his work, but not dear Klay.
What else do we remember important in this post-match celebration? Of course, the now iconic “ night night by Stephen Curry. We will note the traditional bottles of champagne… but let’s come back a little earlier, if you don’t mind. This Warriors title is a collective triumph, but also the individual consecration of Stephen Curry’s career. By receiving the Finals MVP trophy – unanimously – Steph adds to his record the only line he lacked to possess everything. Achieving this feat after all this progress and the difficulties that go with it, hats off to the artist.
The title of NBA champion is also the parade that goes with it. And then there, we had the right to a good big dose of anything.
Klay Thompson, part-time troubadour. Lose your champion’s cap during a boat trip? Check. Stumble during the parade, almost lose one of your champion rings and put a Jules Plisson-style tampon in a lady passing by? Also check. Hit a Michael Jackson choreography with the trophy? Check. We will also remember the tweets of Draymond Green, who did not hesitate to make fun of Boston after their defeat. You can’t change people, as they say. Speaking of him, thank you to point out that he still asked a journalist on site if he was shooting live, and that after learning that he was, he threw a big “F*CK” then walked away.
It was for a funeral https://t.co/AhcKS3ZnrN
— Draymond Green (@Money23Green) June 17, 2022
The fair at anything but not only, since some things have spun the banana up to our ears. When it came time to look back on the season, Stephen Curry admitted that Steve Kerr had asked him to come to Paris in 2024 for the Games, the only medal he is still missing. As usual, the slightly moving passages of the past season are mentioned, like those which were a little harder for the team. This year, it’s “the old ones” who have done the most zbeul, maybe the Jordan Poole and another Jonathan Kuminga have preferred to play more “soberly” while waiting for the giga fiesta later, who knows. In any case, we frankly had a good laugh, and this parade definitively closed the 2021-22 NBA season in the best possible way.
The Warriors champions reminded us of a few years earlier… for our greatest pleasure. This time, the title is not a confirmation of an early season status, but rather the exclamation point of a somewhat crazy quest in the text. The NBA is definitely magnificent when it offers us this kind of scenario that even Hollywood has no secret of.
Sources : YouTube, Twitter @Money23Green
